Nick Day believes the human mammal has increasingly found it more difficult to move away from our fast evolving & more technological ‘world’ – where the Natural world seems to have taken a back seat in our thirst for knowledge, and is neglected to the point of justification & denial.
What he strives to do in his portrayal of Nature, is to bring the onlooker into the subject’s world using basic human instincts such as pity and inquisitiveness – without being sentimental, whilst at the same time illustrating a little of the fascinating depth & detail that this sometimes little known world has to offer. Also subtly lurking in the background of his work, is an impending sense of impermanence, which although the artist is an optimist, reflects what he feels is happening in today’s global society.
Nick Day was delighted to be elected as an Artists for Conservation member in 2019. His work has raised thousands of pounds for animal conservation charities through sales of his original paintings and prints.
Nick has been a professional artist for 30 years, has exhibited in the Royal Academy & sold paintings and prints all over the world.
Awards and exhibitions
At The Wildlife Artists Society International (TWASI) 2012 exhibition at the Nature In Art museum in Twigworth, Gloucestershire, he won The David Shepherd Award for best work depicting an officially recognized endangered species, and the People’s Choice Award for the same painting ‘Snow Leopard’. Nick also picked up awards there in 2015, 2016, 2018, 2023 and 2024
He has painted sets of work for private buildings, his most recent being a set of six botanical paintings to furnish SHEIKH MOHAMMED, (Current ruler of Dubai) new home in London.
In 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2022 he was shortlisted for David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation, WAY (Wildlife Artist of the Year) exhibition – and had work selected for the annual SWLA (Society of Wildlife Artists) in the 2016, 2018, 2022, 2024 & 2025 exhibitions. Both were at the Mall Galleries in London.
Much of his work is held in private collections
